Monthly Archives: January 2010

Global Game Jam 2010!

By Alex Schearer | January 26th, 2010
It’s a new year which means it’s time for another Global Game Jam. I didn’t participate last year but after reading all about it I felt it would be a major loss to skip out this time. Fortunately for me DigiPen will be holding a meet-up. I hope you guys can find a place nearby [...]

Thinking About User Interfaces as Games

By Alex Schearer | January 19th, 2010
Really interesting article by my colleague over at Lost Garden. Dan talks about a new project that he’s been working on to blend game design and user interface principles. As a game developer and someone who works a lot with user interfaces I found his piece very provocative, so I thought I would share it [...]

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    Hello, my name is Alex Schearer. I grew up in New York and currently live in Seattle.

    I am a software engineer who works on Microsoft Exchange by day and indie games at night, and this is my blog about game development.

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